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J. BIZET.

COMBINATION ASH SIFTER'AND COAL BIN.

APPLICM'WN FILED HAIL 7' I917.

Patented NOV. 25, 1919.

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1. BIZET.

comsm'mofi ASH SIFIER AND COAL BIN.

APPLiCATlON FILED MAR. 7, 1917.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

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JOHN BIZET, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

GOMBINATf LON ASH-SIFTER AND COAL-BIN.

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Application filed March 7, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN Bram, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Combination Ash-Sifter and Coal-Bin; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved combination ash sifter and coal bin, and one of the objects of the invention is'to provide an improved device of this kind having an ash sifter which may be rocked or rotated for sifting the ashes. V H

A further object of the invention is to provide a sifting member which may be bodily removed from its supporting receptacle.

A further object of the invention is to provide a closure having a bearing for one of the pintles (which has a crank) of the sifter, and constituting means to support one end of the sifter.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a'casing divided into two compart-ments, one for the reception of the sifter, the other for the reception of coal, and in which other compartment, a suitable draining false bottom is arranged, whereby when dampe .ing or wetting the coal, the water may be drained off.

In practical fields, the details of construction may necessitate alterations falling within the scope of what is claimed.

.The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings, and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the combination ash sifter and coal bin, constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4: is a longitudinal sectional view on line 4l1 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view on line 55 of Fig. 1.

Referring more especially to the drawings, 1 designates a suitable casing which Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

Serial No. 153,082.

spaced from the bottom proper of the casing. The bottom proper 8 of the coal compartment is provided with drain cock 9, for draining off the water, which is used for dampening the coal which makes the coal burn better. The openings 10 and 11 of said compartments 3 and t are covered by the closures 12 and 13, which are hinged at 1% adjacent the rear upper part of the easing and which closures are provided with handles 15 and 16. The compartment in the front wall of the casing has an opening 17, which is covered by the closure 18 hinged at 19. The closure 18 is provided with hooks 20 to enter the eyes 21, whereby the member 18 may be held securely closed. Said closure 18 has a handle 22, and is provided with a bearing 23. The rear wall of the casing adjacent the compartment 3 has a screw 24 threaded therein, which screw is provided with a socket 25. A suitable sifter 26 is arranged in the compartment 3, The sift-er is elongated, and rectangular in cross sect-ion. Owing to this rectangular construction, the ashes are thoroughly agitated, since they are thrown from one side to the other of the several faces of the sifter, whereby the dust of the ashes may be thoroughly separated from the cinders. In other words as the cinders are tossed or beaten from one face of the sifter to the other, as the sifter is rotated at a moderate speed, the dust becomes thoroughly dislodged from the cinders. This sifter is substantially elongated and rectangular in shape, and is provided with solid or closed ends 27 and 28, and the wire fabric longitudinal sides 29 and a sim ilar bottom 30. The closure of the sifter consists of a frame 31 hinged at 32 and provided with a latch 33, and is covered with a wire fabric 34. The solid end 28 of the sifter has a pintle 35 engaging the socket 25 I the sitter.

- of said screw 2%. The end 27 of the sitter.

has a pintle 36, which engages the bearing 37 of the upper edge of the opening 17 and in the bearing 23 of the closure 18, whereby the sitter may be supported in the compartment 3. The pintle 26 has a shoulder 39, which engage the front wall of the com partmentB adjacent the bearing 37, thereby preventing excessive axial'movement of A crank 40 is carried by the pintle 36-,- whereby the sift-er may either be l'OCkGCl Ol' rotated. An ash receiving pan 4:1 is arranged in the bottom of the compartment 'lVhen sifting ashes, the same may be deposited in the sitter while in its com partn ent by opening the closure 12, then by running or rocking the crank, the ashes may be sitted, the ashes proper falling into the pan ll, while the. cinders remain in the sitter. It is to be noted that by means of the closure 18, the-sitter is removably supported in its receptacle. By opening the closure 18, the sitter may be removed for emptying the cinders.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful, is

In an ash sitter, the combination with a casing having a compartment, the lower part otthe front wall of the compartment having an opening, the lower end of the wall above said opening havlng a bearing,

7 the rear wall of the compartment having an adjustable socket member, an elongated revoluble sitter havinga pintle at one end engaging said socket member, the other end of the sitter having a pintle provided With a shoulder and designed to engage the bearing in the lower" edge of the wall above the opening in said wall, whereby as the socket member is adjusted said shoulder. will engage the inner faceot the-walladjacent the opening and a hinged closure for the opening which, when opened, will permit the removal of the sitter-through the opening, the upper edge of the closure for the opening having a bearing to cooperate with the bearing in the lower edge ot-the wall above the opening to retain the shoulder pintle in place, and a crank for said pintle so that the sitter may be rotated. h r

In testimony whereof I ha-ve signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

I JoH -BiZET. Vvlitnesses I Emr. WVoLrr, 

